[ale] Fixing time error

[Robert Heaven]

You probably need to "touch" the /var/log/messages so logrotate won't
keep barffing.


On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 11:24, Tomer Tishgarten wrote:
> I keep getting an error message (see below). I know it must be due to a 
> recent restart. During the process, the time within the BIOS was lost 
> (it looks like my battery on the motherboard is dead).  When I brough it 
> back up, I started it under the default time, which included 1980 as the 
> year.  And ever since that, my time is stuck though I've gone back in the 
> BIOS and updated it.  How do I fix this issue?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Tomer
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:02:00 -0400
> From: Cron Daemon <root at tish.dynu.com>
> To: root at tish.dynu.com
> Subject: Cron <root at tish> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
> 
> error: bad year 1980 for file /var/log/messages in state file /var/lib/logrotate.status
> 
> 
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